Archaeology

New and Key Titles 2013

Classical Archaeology

  1. The Etruscan World

    Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean, with such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the...

    To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Ancient Cities

    The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome, 2nd Edition

    By Charles Gates

    Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations....

    Published March 16th 2011 by Routledge

  3. The World of Pompeii

    Edited by Pedar Foss, John J. Dobbins

    This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes...

    Published June 16th 2008 by Routledge

  4. Miletos

    Archaeology and History, 2nd Edition

    By Alan M. Greaves

    Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important Greek cities – a key economic power as well as a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in over a century of excavations not published in English, studying the...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Roman Archaeology for Historians

    By Ray Laurence

    Series: Approaching the Ancient World

    Roman Archaeology for Historians provides students of Roman history with a guide to the contribution of archaeology to the study of their subject. It discusses the issues with the use of material and textual evidence to explain the Roman past, and the importance of viewing this evidence in context....

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Resurrecting Pompeii

    By Estelle Lazer

    Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge